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Filing this one for CBS in the better-late-than-never category (or perhaps decades late), Sunday’s episode of 60 Minutes led with a lengthy profile of the upstart University of Austin (UATX) and its classical liberal education and commitment to free speech as a way of realizing that, for lack of a better term, American universities are not only hot beds of chaos (as exhibited by the aftermath of October 7), but exhibit little to no ideological and political diversity).
More truth-telling came from UATX co-founder and Hoover Institution senior fellow Sir Niall Ferguson, who said “it’s terribly important that the United States improves, reforms, revitalizes its universities” and that universities have moved dramatically “to stifle free expression” to create “a huge disconnect now between the academic elite and the average American voter” with rampant censorship and self-censorship.
Wertheim seemed shocked when he said 60 Minutes “came across some data that less than three percent of the Harvard faculty identifies as conservative” and “[m]ore than 75 percent identifies as liberal,” which is “[w]ildly out of proportion with the American public.”